Sussex man doing well a year and a half after new brain cancer treatment

Ben and Emily Trotman. His innovative treatment involved receiving immunotherapy before chemotherapy. Photograph: The National Brain Appeal

The only person in the world to receive a groundbreaking treatment for brain cancer is doing well almost a year and a half later, a charity has said.

Ben Trotman, 41, took part in a clinical trial that used immunotherapy to target his glioblastoma, an invasive growth of cells in the brain that gives an average life expectancy of nine months.